MALTA
Times of Malta
A judge this morning defied an umpteenth bomb threat at the Law Courts as he continued to hear submissions on the appeal filed by two defrocked priests who were found guilty of sexually abusing teenage boys who lived in a residential home in Sta Venera in the 1980s and 1990s.
Godwin Scerri and Charles Pulis, both members of the Missionary Society of St Paul, were sentenced to five and six years in prison respectively for sexually abusing 11 young boys in their care.
Mr Pulis and Mr Scerri were defrocked in July and October last year following the independent Vatican investigation.
Presiding over an appeal sitting, Judge David Scicluna heard defence lawyers Giannella de Marco and Joe Giglio make their submissions on why the Appeals Court should overturn the decision by the Magistrates’ Court and free their clients from the charges brought against them.
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